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2. How can you say that dowry is a social evil? How can it be eradicated?
3. Is it enough to make a law? What else is needed to make it effective?

4. How are laws and dissent concerned? What are the types of dissent?
5. What is the need for enactment and amendment of laws?
6. What is Salt Law? Who made it?

E. Answer the questions in detail :
1. What is the role of Constitution in a country?
2. Why do you need laws in the society?
3. Do you approve the way Gandhiji expressed his dissent against the Salt Law? Give reasons.
4. How are legislation and enforcement linked to each other?

5. Why all the countries require the laws?
6. How election is a powerful method of dissent?

1. How did the rulers and the rule conduct themselves in the past when the Constitution was not exist?
2. Which type of dissent do you prefer? Give reason.

The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation Act) 1986
The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation Act) 1986, makes it illegal to employ children under 14 in
any dangerous job, for example, in factories. The Act prohibits the employment of children in any
workshop where processes such as beedi making, carpet weaving, cloth printing, dyeing and weaving,
manufacture of matches, explosive and fire works or manufacture of slate pencils are carried out. In
2006, this law was amended and employing children under 14 for any kind of work, including domestic
work, was made punishable.

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